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Delft’s History and Monuments

Delft’s History and Monuments

Delft · Netherlands

14 stops
  • Audio guide
  • 4 languages
  • Offline

Walk through Delft by pausing at churches, a museum, a tower, a windmill, an artwork, almshouses, a square and a sequence of bridges. Each stop offers a different way to read the city’s past, from monumental buildings to the structures that connect its streets and waterways. Follow the route to compare Delft’s major landmarks with the quieter details of its historic built environment.

The walk

Stops 1–6 of 14. The rest are in the app.

  1. Nieuwe Kerk

    Nieuwe Kerk

    A church that became the burial place of the House of Orange-Nassau

  2. Hugo Grotius

    Hugo Grotius

    A nineteenth-century Delft monument to Hugo Grotius, moved across the Markt in 2004.

  3. Vrouwe van Rijnsburgerbrug

    Vrouwe van Rijnsburgerbrug

    A sixteenth-century Delft bridge named for the abbess of Rijnsburg

  4. 8 more stops on this walk, in the app
  5. Hofje van Gratie

    Hofje van Gratie

    Hofje van Gratie is a historic almshouse complex and park in Delft.

  6. Agnetapark

    Agnetapark

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  7. De Roos

    De Roos

    A working windmill rebuilt on Delft’s walls, moved for better wind, and preserved above a railway tunnel.

  8. Stop 7

  9. Stop 8

  10. Stop 9

  11. 8 more stops in the app

Data: OpenStreetMap contributors and Google Places

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How a walk works

8 more stops in the app

This page shows the first 6 of 14 stops. The rest of the walk, and the guide who narrates it, are in the app.

  1. Pick a walk

    Every stop is a real place, already in walking order.

  2. Pocket your phone

    Follow the line on the live map, or download the walk before you lose signal.

  3. Listen as you arrive

    On a narrated walk the story starts on its own at each stop, so your eyes stay on the place.

See the whole walk in the app

Free to install · Every city’s featured walk is free, start to finish.

  • A guide who talks

    Narration at every stop, starting on its own as you arrive — phone in your pocket.

  • The route, followed

    A live map with the turns called out, and a way back whenever you wander off it.

  • In four languages

    English, French, Spanish and Arabic — the words and the voice, not just the labels.

  • Or build your own

    Pick the places you actually want and the app works out the order to walk them in.

  • The unglamorous things

    Toilets, pharmacies, cash points and water, without leaving the walk.

  • No signal needed

    Download a walk before you go and it works under a souk roof or on a plane.

  • Picks up where you left off

    Stop for lunch, come back tomorrow, and the walk is exactly where you left it.